MOUNTAIN: Peril, Passion & Poetry – A Vision of the Sublime
MOUNTAIN from Director Jennifer Peedom in collaboration with Australian Chamber Orchestra is both a cinematic experience and musical odyssey of the sublime kind
Arcadia
Roman Mosaics Across The Empire – Arcadia at Getty Villa
Roman Mosaics Across the Empire an exhibition at Getty Villa 30 March – 12 Sept 2016 reveals how ancient Romans were surrounded daily by beautiful art & imagery
The Culture Concept – Art Design & Style, Free Video Series
The Culture Concept Circle videos survey the progress of architecture, gardens, interiors, paintings, sculpture & objet d’art FREE – Antiquity to Renaissance
Plato and Philosophy – Renaissance Gardens and Earthly Love
Renaissance designers grasped the idea of a garden everyone would be happy enjoying life and love in together as in Arcadia pastoral home of the Ancient Greeks
Claude Lorrain – At the Beginning of a Modern Romantic Idyll
French artist Claude Lorrain presented nature and antiquity as more beautiful than it was and the countryside around Rome inspired his poetic rendering of light
Italian Villas & Gardens – The Fatal Gift of Beauty & Water
The continuing tradition of Italy’s villas fountains and gardens reveal their national love for festive display and enjoying the fatal gift of beauty and water
Painter Sydney Long – The Spirit of the Land of Australia
Painter Sydney Long’s Pan’ has come to embody the spirit of the land of Australia, its flora, fauna, its imagination and the beauty of a magical dreamtime
At the Beginnings of Art – An Arcadian Ideal
The Arcadian ideal of ancient Greece as a centre for youth, energy, toleration and intellectual freedom a place where beauty and nature came together is true